Show TALKS WITH TRAVELERS I is hot weather up In the valley of the Snake Just as it Is In the valley of i 1 the Great Salt Lake remarked Col K F Holmes at the Knuttsfurd yesterday on I his return from a northern trip People I are complaining there u elsewhere but It I 1 Is a stirring country The rush of new I people from the East continues SL Anthony I I thou Is filled to overflowing and there I Is a strong movement lo Idaho Falls and the country surrounding J is i phenomenal phenome-nal tho way new settlers are coming In and the vale of the Snake will becomu a thickly populated part of tho State OH I net winter Is dry I do not know what will become of our crops on account of the grasshoppers awirl Swen O NIel I son of Fairview at the Kenyon yesterday The female hoppers are la > lnS their eggs II i this summer and if I there Is a wet wIn i tor the eggs will perish But If It Is dry disaster Is sure An Imnnnso amQunt of damage Is now being dono by tho grasshoppers grass-hoppers as they fly The weather is hot and dry in our part of the State e S Tdaho is destined to take a supremo position In the mining Interests of the Nation said Charles W Stickney mining mi-ning engineer and metallurgist at the Cullen yesterday I have spent sometime some-time in Arizona In my profession but the outlook there In I nothing to what It Is In Idaho The central Dart of the Stato la I a place of untold possibilities and It la well that the Short Line is pushIng Its surveys beyond Houston All of the country opened up In Idaho ought to be tributary to Salt Lake a > We are having the hottest weather In twenty years at Butte said W S Far boor at the AVhlto house yesterday So Montana Is no exception to the prevailing prevail-ing drought Mr Farbour said that tho new Statehousc was so near completion that the State officers would no doubt move Into It early In tho a fall J W Taylor a wellknown stockman of western Texas Is at tho Knutaford He says there has been no losses from any drought In his country or in northern I north-ern Mexico and that the range feed Is good all over there When asked If tho far western part of Texas would be like ly I to try again to cut loose from tho State as it did three years ago Mr Tay lor said the State would never consent to dismemberment and the great part of the voting population was in eastern Texas where the opposition to any segregation was the strongest segresaton wa He said the building of tho Rock Island road Into El Paso was stirring up the Santa Fe into building Into El Paso also from Its Pecos valley branch just south of Roswell thus giving the Santa Fe a short line also Into Kansas S City What puzzles mo Is how Senator Clark Vha to make connections with his road from Salt Lake when all the other roads centering hero are In the Ilarrlman combine said F B Sanford a former railroad official from Los Angeles at tho Walker yesterday But at the same time the San Pedro officials In Los Angeles An-geles profess to feel perfectly sure that the road will go through and the cars have all been painted Salt Lake In speaking of the fruit crop of southern south-ern California Mr Sanford said there had er been 35000 cars of oranges shipped this season and fifty cars a day of California fruits were 0 moderato estimate ot tho shipments over the Rio Grande Western |